TY  - GEN
N2  - On the eve of the Civil War, 'Awful Disclosures of the Hotel Dieu', a convent exposé by a fraudulent 'escaped nun' Maria Monk, captivated readers. The text served as a centrepiece for a larger campaign against convents, marked by riots, propaganda, and nativist politics, and reflected deep concerns regarding women, religious life, and the fate of the Republic.
AB  - On the eve of the Civil War, 'Awful Disclosures of the Hotel Dieu', a convent exposé by a fraudulent 'escaped nun' Maria Monk, captivated readers. The text served as a centrepiece for a larger campaign against convents, marked by riots, propaganda, and nativist politics, and reflected deep concerns regarding women, religious life, and the fate of the Republic.
T1  - Escaped nuns :true womanhood and the campaign against convents in antebellum America /
AU  - Yacovazzi, Cassandra L.,
CN  - Oxford Scholarship Online
CN  - BX4220
ID  - 845124
KW  - Convents
KW  - Monasticism and religious orders for women
SN  - 9780190881030
TI  - Escaped nuns :true womanhood and the campaign against convents in antebellum America /
LK  - https://univsouthin.idm.oclc.org/login?url=http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190881009.001.0001
UR  - https://univsouthin.idm.oclc.org/login?url=http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190881009.001.0001
ER  -